KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

[Duncan]

Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:32 +0100 as excerpted:

> I take your point, but in truth, any well-written piece of code should
> be able to exit gracefully if something fails.  If it can't, I'd rather
> not run it at all.

You're absolutely correct.  But the point is, one of the big selling-
point features of plasma has been its extensibility... by coders who may 
in fact be rather bad at it, beginners or whatever.  In that sort of 
environment, you have to COUNT on some of the code being bad, because it 
is GOING to happen.  An app designed for that can't simply crash when one 
of the extensions goes bad, because it WILL heppen, and it WILL look bad 
for the main app as a result.  It MUST be designed to be robust and have 
the rest keep running in spite of whatever badly coded barf-code someone 
throws at it, or it wasn't so properly designed for that extensibility as 
it might seem to be after all.

Which is the problem we have.

So are you going to quit running plasma, then, because you'd "rather not 
run it at all"?  [Haha only serious.]

[Caveats about not being a (C/C++) coder apply.  My skills tend more 
toward technical sysadmin, scripting, etc.  And /as/ a sysadmin that does 
at least speak some programming lingo, plasma is quite good in a lot of 
ways including its extensibility, but it could certainly be better in 
regard to robustness in view of that extensibility, is what I'm saying.]

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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